AMSTERDAM :Veteran coach Dick Advocaat said tiny Curacao's qualification for the World Cup is the "craziest thing" he had ever achieved in his long-standing career.

The Caribbean island of barely more than 150,000 people, which is a self-governing part of the Netherlands, became the smallest country to qualify for the World Cup when they drew with Jamaica in Kingston on Tuesday.

The 78-year-old Advocaat was not there because he had to return to the Netherlands for family reasons.

Nicknamed “the Little General”, he has been the national coach of eight different countries and took the Netherlands to the semi-finals of the 2004 European Championship and the World Cup quarter-finals in 1994.

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